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"Well, then, faites votre possible as Napoleon said to his friend David for I am anxious that this portrait shall be a chef-d'oeuvre. I design it for a present." "With such a subject before me," replied the painter "I could not labor more conscientiously, if the picture were designed for myself."
The young man so justly and gently reproved dares to protest; thereupon Scudéri returns to the charge; he calls to his assistance the Eminent Academy; "Pronounce, O my Judges, a decree worthy of your eminence, which will give all Europe to know that Le Cid is not the chef-d'oeuvre of the greatest man in France, but the least judicious performance of M. Corneille himself.
What shall be planted in these borders will depend largely on the tastes of the gardener; but, as has been suggested, there will assuredly be one or more shadowy grape-arbors under which the proprietor can retire to provide horticultural strategy. This brings us to that chef-d'oeuvre of Nature The vine. It climbs by its tendrils, and they appear to have clasped the heart of humanity.
Temple, you shall see my chef-d'oeuvre by and by; don't look at the reverse of the medal, pray. Did not I tell you, you were the most impatient man in the world?" It was true that Mr.
Lambdin had intrusted the precious manuscript to his bosom friend, Sidney Rigdon, that he might embellish and alter it, as he might think expedient. The publisher now dead, Rigdon allowed this chef-d'oeuvre to remain in his desk, till, reflecting upon his precarious means, and upon his chances of obtaining a future livelihood, a sudden idea struck him.
Here we found more white calves belonging to the gorgeous liveries and the powdered heads of the lackeys, who stood there to open the doors for all comers. We were not the last, but of the latest, to arrive. The salon seemed immense to me. The ceiling is a chef-d'oeuvre of Girodet style Empire.
On the ragged trunk of an enormous pine hung a few tufts of gray hair caught from a passing grizzly, but in strange juxtaposition at its foot lay an empty bottle of incomparable bitters, the chef-d'oeuvre of a hygienic civilization, and blazoned with the arms of an all-healing republic.
"They expect us to move up to-night, sir," I told the colonel, handing him the order brought by a motor-cyclist despatch-bearer about eight o'clock. "Oh!" said the colonel and the "Oh!" was a chef-d'oeuvre of irony. Then he wrote a masterly little note, perfect in its correctness, and yet instinct with the power and knowledge of a commander who had a mind of his own.
On his bed, and on his chairs, and on his sofa, and on his drawers, lay trousers and vests and cravats enough to distract the choice of a Stoic. And first one pair of trousers was tried on, and then another and one waistcoat, and then a second, and then a third. Gradually that chef-d'oeuvre of civilization a man dressed grew into development and form; and, finally, Mr.
This was his sister Persis, Persis the practical and reliable, this woman who sugared the stew, and allowed the chef-d'oeuvre of the dinner to slip her mind. He was immediately aware of a singular flush staining her cheeks, a feverish glitter in her eye. The gentleness of his comment took her by surprise. "I guess, Persis, it was only that you was thinking of something else." "That was it, Joel."
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